Exhibition
LIZ DAVIS: Earthly Remains
18 Apr 2008 – 17 May 2008
Address
- 20 Goswell Road
- Barbican
- London
- EC1M 7AA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 4, 55, 56, 243
- Tube: Barbican, St. Paul
LIZ DAVIS: Earthly Remains
About
British artist Liz Davis' concerns are with the devastation of the natural world.The major part of this exhibition features an installation in the basement gallery in which a badger skeleton is treated with the reverence we usually associate with human beings. This wild animal is beautifully decorated and placed with care in a reworked burial site so as to indicate the rituals of the ancients. In the upper gallery is a related series of miniature coffins, each solemnly contains the remains of the beloved wildlife recreated by Davis in different representations. Alongside these beastly sculptures which are beautifully bejeweled, Davis continues a series of paintings whose subject is influenced by the ground beneath our feet as a record of the lives and deaths of animals, birds and insects through traces and remains, exposed through layers upon layers of delicate glaze.
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Mon ' Fri 11:00 ' 19:00
Sat 11:00 ' 17:00
